Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepherd. I'm joined by Monica Padman. Hello, Monica.

Hi. We have incredibly exciting news. Starting on Monday, August 14th, you'll be able to find all new episodes of Armchair Expert free on Spotify and

everywhere you get your podcasts. But in the meantime, we decided we wanted to revisit a few of our favorite episodes over the last couple of years.

Yes, it's very exciting for us because we get to come back to everyone, which is really, really fun. And these are some of our

faves. Yes. In case you missed them, these are the ones that we thought were worth re-airing before we go wide on August 14th. Please enjoy some of our best of

Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm back Shepherd.

Who are you joined by? And I'm joined by

miniature moves,

miniature moves. Why are you doing the intro today? I want to visit Monica day. I think it might be. Yeah, it's Monica day all day every day.

Matt Damon is here boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. I hope everyone has a change of slacks.

No one should have played on this unless they got a backup pair of unmentionables and slacks.

I hope everyone's smiling from year to year throughout the whole thing because I sure did. Yeah, I think we bolted. Yeah.

It is really funny to be sitting next to someone in an interview and feeling like you like him 100x because that seems impossible because I adore Matt Damon.

I mean, he is one of my all-time favorite actors, but I was so overshadowed by your love that I felt I don't even deserve to be here.

Of course, you deserve to be here. Okay. Well, that's good. On a scale of 1 to 10, how cool do you think I played it?

A 10. Oh, thank you. It was kind of similar to when we talked to Ben Schwartz about you having Ben in love with him.

Where he was like, yeah, this is how it was. And there was this element of like, it's not that way now. Just so you know, it was very chill.

I'm very cool. I'm very rad. Thank you. Yeah, radical and chill, which is fun. But I was fucked up. Yeah, I was way more

energized on the inside. Yes, it was extreme. It was full body tingles the whole time for real. Yeah. Oh my God, I'm so

I think at one point I really did almost pass out really at what part I want. I was like, oh, I feel like dizzy.

But I think maybe because I like stopped breathing or something because I was listening to hard. Oh, man. What an experience.

I don't need to tell you any of this, but Matt Damon is an Oscar award-winning and Golden Globe award-winning actor producer

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